Inclusion

The Whole of Humanity

"Now the body of Christ, as I often have said, is the whole of humanity."

Our Marvelous Inheritance

OUR MARVELOUS INHERITANCE ...through his Incarnation, Christ reconciled us to Abba, he united and reunited humanity and Trinity in his Person. On the Cross, Christ tore open the curtain for all Abba’s children, granting everyone...

Incarnation and Inclusion

When I speak of inclusion, I first mean Christ’s inclusion of all humanity in the hypostatic union. That is, when the Word became flesh, Jesus Christ united himself to the entire human race. The union of divine and human natures in the one...

What is the Gospel – Part 1

Video 28min - Baxter Kruger interviewed by Jason Clark.

What is the Gospel – Part 2

Video 28min – Baxter Kruger interviewed by Jason Clark

The Fullness of Humanity: Divinization

2 Cor. 3:18; 2 Pet. 1:4

THE FULLNESS OF HUMANITY:  DIVINIZATION As I reviewed Wesley’s case with my mentor Ron Dart, he reminded me of a fourth aspect of our Christian inheritance: “deification” (also known as “divinization” or “theosis”). What is included in the...

Jesus Is Perfect Theology

John 10:10

Video/Audio Viewing Jesus in all Scripture, and viewing Old Testament Scripture in the light of Jesus. 11:33 Old Testament violence When reading the Old Testament, Is this about Jesus, or is this about us? 14:12 Scripture is not the Word...

Theism is NOT Trinitarianism

Theism says God exists. Trinitarian confession says God is communion.Theism posits a single divine subject who acts on the world from outside it. That God is essentially a monad, a center of will and power who creates, governs, and judges...

The Body of Christ, the Whole of Humanity

Now the body of Christ,as I often have said,is the whole of humanity.— St. Gregory of Nyssa It is a truth of the Incarnation, in which Christ has united himself with all of humanity, that the body of Christ is the whole of humanity. For...

Striving vs Union

Once a person believes that God is distant, striving becomes inevitable. Not because they are rebellious, but because they are sincere. They want to be close. They want to be right. They want to restore what they believe has been lost...